Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

Microsoft’s new Copilot function in Excel lets users generate, analyze and explain data directly from cell formulas, marking a major step toward full AI integration within spreadsheets.

The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...

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I have used the Excel functions ... TEXTSPLIT is a very useful function for breaking down text cells that contain different lengths of text and delimiters. It can be used in several ways, and we’ll ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Learn how DROP, REDUCE, LAMBDA, and STACK make Excel arrays update automatically, split text, and stack filtered results ...

Millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs all over the world use Microsoft Excel to help with common accounting, forecasting and inventory tasks. With Excel's integrated tools, it is ...

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Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...